Admit (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

verb (used with object), ad·mit·ted, ad·mit·ting.
  1. to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
  2. to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
  3. to register (a person) as an inpatient at a hospital: After seeing the test results, the emergency room doctor admitted her and put her on intravenous fluids.
  4. to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
  5. to permit; allow.
  6. to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
  7. to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.
  8. to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
  9. to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.
verb (used without object), ad·mit·ted, ad·mit·ting.
  1. to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.
  2. to permit the possibility of something; allow (usually followed by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation.
verb -mits, -mitting or -mitted (mainly tr)
  1. to confess or acknowledge (a crime, mistake, etc)
  2. to concede (the truth or validity of something)
  3. to allow to enter; let in
  4. to allow participation (in) or the right to be part (of)
  5. to allow (of); leave room (for)
  6. to give access
Admit (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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